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EIB’s Project Venus issues second digital bond on blockchain

The European Investment Bank (EIB) — in collaboration with Goldman Sachs Bank Europe, Santander and Société Générale — launched Project Venus, their second euro-denominated...

Opinion: Regulators need to prioritise closing the market making gap

The one thing bond markets are really in need of, is more two-way liquidity in stressed markets. Yet that is nowhere on the regulatory...

IPC and BondWave announce partnership to simplify pre-trade price discovery

IPC Systems, the communications and connectivity specialist has integrated its Unigy trade communications platform and IQ/Max Touch financial terminal with the BondWave Calculator, a...

Fidelity International: “A new era for interest rates”

Steve Ellis, global chief investment officer for fixed income at Fidelity International has outlined dynamics which could affect debt markets in 2023. “Fixed income markets...

How to innovate in a volatile bond market

When trading teams are fully stretched it is hard for them to support innovation and change, yet Dan Barnes finds that the two things...

ABN AMRO Investment Solutions using BNP Paribas for outsourced dealing

BNP Paribas’s Securities Services business has been selected to provide ABN AMRO Investment Solutions with a range of dealing and middle office outsourcing services....

Could the Twitter hangover really hurt credit liquidity?

Banks’ support for market making is tied to the bonds they carry on their books, and the cost that has for their balance sheets....

Karim Awenat – naturally curious

Karim Awenat, Invesco's head of fixed income trading, London discusses the skillsets, culture and technology needed to navigate the bond markets. What are the challenges...